PORT CANAVERAL, FL – A duo of upright side by side recovered Falcon 9 boosters – with landing legs up & legs down – showcase the Space Coast traffic jam at Port Canaveral resulting directly from the torrid SpaceX launch pace to space and back opening the month of September – and continuing all year long!
Today, Sept. 8 I witnessed the boosters along with 3 German built Liebherr cranes used to pluck them off their droneship landing pads and transport them to ground pedastals for further processing and eventual reuse in future launches
Enjoy our photos of the pair of 1st stage SpaceX Falcon 9 taken by Ken Kremer for Space UpClose on Monday, Sept. 8 looking northwards across the port channel to North Cargo Pier 6
The booster duo originate from blastoffs on Sept 3 & 5 of Starlink satellite delivery missions 10-22 and 10-57 from pads 39A and 40 on the Cape and NASA KSC – to fortify the Starlink mega constellation of broadband internet satellites.
Some eight and a half minutes after liftoff to space the booster landed on SpaceX duo or droneships JRTI and ASOG prepositioned in the Atlantic and waiting hundreds of miles off shore off the coast of the Carolinas
The month of September began auspiciously with the SpaceX Starlink 10-22 mission sunrise liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida on September 3, at 7:56 a.m. EDT (1156 UTC) soaring northeast and carrying 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to LEO
This counted as the company’s 110th Falcon 9 launch of the year and 499th landing.
F9 B1083.14 landed on the drone ship ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’ ASOG marking the 123rd landing on the ship and the 499th booster landing to date on its 14th mission to space and back.
Next up just 2 days later came the Starlink 10-57 mission liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at 8:32 a.m. EDT (1232 UTC) on Friday morning Sept. 5 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
Starlink 10-57 mission also flew on a north easterly trajectory and F9 1069.27 landed on the JRTI ‘Just Read the Instructions’ droneship about eight and a half minutes later off the coast of the Carolinas – on its 27th mission to space and back.
This counted as the company’s 111th Falcon 9 launch and 500th landing of the year 2025.
SpaceX is hoping to launch about 170 Falcon rockets by the end of the year
The Starlink constellation comprises over 8300 broadband internet satellites operating in LEO
Next Falcon 9 launch from the Cape is targeting Sept 10 from pad 40
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Ken Kremer Interviews
Sept 4/5 WFTV ABC News Orlando: Watch my comments about FAA approving SpaceX to more than double Falcon 9 launches from 50 to 120 per year from Cape pad 40. They claim no impact on the environment and plan no Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). I say we need one. Show us the data – and explain what is the impact on the air & maritime sea spaces and millions of visiting tourists
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